Gayle Forman Quotes

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

~ Gayle Forman

It's like you're averse to adventure.

~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... she trails off.

~ Gayle Forman

It was like finding out the world was made of gossamer and could be so easily ripped apart. To be solely at the mercy of fate.

~ Gayle Forman

I don't want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

~ Gayle Forman

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.

~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

~ Gayle Forman

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.

~ Gayle Forman

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.

~ Gayle Forman

She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like after a show, like after a heart monitor goes to flatline.“Hated me? W

~ Gayle Forman

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

~ Gayle Forman

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

~ Gayle Forman

I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

~ Gayle Forman

I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

~ Gayle Forman

If you could know going in that twenty-five years of love would break you in the end, would you risk it? Because isn’t it inevitable? When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you’ll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

~ Gayle Forman

And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.

~ Gayle Forman

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

~ Gayle Forman

A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.

~ Gayle Forman

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.

~ Gayle Forman

When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.“Me, too, Gramps,” I whispered.

~ Gayle Forman

But Dad looked delighted. My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

~ Gayle Forman

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

~ Gayle Forman

Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?

~ Gayle Forman

Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him.

~ Gayle Forman

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

~ Gayle Forman

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone

~ Gayle Forman

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

~ Gayle Forman

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again.

~ Gayle Forman

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

~ Gayle Forman

Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.

~ Gayle Forman

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

~ Gayle Forman

It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

~ Gayle Forman

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

~ Gayle Forman

Don't worry, I plan on living a long time.Why are you making a bucket list, then?Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.

~ Gayle Forman

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now, it's frozen shut.

~ Gayle Forman

The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

~ Gayle Forman

If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.

~ Gayle Forman

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

~ Gayle Forman

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

~ Gayle Forman